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id: scaling-hydra
title: Scaling ORY Hydra
---

ORY Hydra is running in high-scale production environments that do millions of
requests per day. To scale ORY Hydra, simply spin up another VM / Docker
Container / Pod of ORY Hydra with the same configuration. There is no need for
complex key/value stores or message queues to serve high traffic environments!

If you use multiple SQL instances make use of HAProxy or similar technology to
do
[SQL Load Balancing](https://severalnines.com/resources/database-management-tutorials/mysql-load-balancing-haproxy-tutorial).
